As part of the clamp down, Mugabe’s goons have arrested a New York Times reporter:

The government has also cracked down on foreign journalists, who have been covering the election without accreditation. On Thursday, the police arrested Barry Bearak, a correspondent in the Johannesburg bureau of The New York Times, on charges related to covering the election without official permission from the government. He was still being held in a Harare jail on Saturday.

Though unilateralism isn’t in favor at the paper of record for the left, President Bush ought to take a page from TR’s book and let Mugabe know he has avery limited period of time in which to release the American unharmed.